"Taylor Swift dads will grin and bear her concert for their daughters, and some might actually enjoy it" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, July 27, 2013
Taylor Swift’s Red Tour — which has touched down at Gillette Stadium for sold-out shows Friday and Saturday — and so when some 100,000 people fill Gillette for the concerts, most of them young girls dazzled by Swift’s intoxicating mix of glamour, wholesomeness, and musicality, Shawn Sears — a former rock band drummer — will be there, too. Think of him as a Taylor Swift Dad.
Don't they have a problem with other types of intoxications?
Wearing khakis and slightly uncomfortable expressions, and less enamored with America’s sweetheart than with their girls, the dads are concert Sherpas. They’re the ones carefully carrying the homemade “I heart Taylor” signs so they don’t get crushed, and waiting in line to buy their daughters T-shirts emblazoned with Swift’s signature blond hair and bright red lips.
Both hero and potential source of shame, they are never ever ever ever — to borrow from Swift’s famous lyrics — allowed to dance or sing....
The 23-year-old Swift, who recently purchased a $17.75 million home in Watch Hill, R.I., is a seven-time Grammy winner and the owner of six Academy of Country Music Awards. Her most recent album, “Red,” sold more than 1.2 million copies in its first week last October — the biggest numbers for any album since 2002, according to Billboard....
With the concerts looming, dads who are semi-dreading the event — even as they look forward to bonding with their daughters — might want to keep three observations in mind, one from a Boston College psychology professor, one from a humorist, and the other from Kiss 108’s Matt Siegel....
But as many dads noted, it could be worse. They could be facing a Justin Bieber concert. (He played TD Garden last weekend, so that threat has passed for now.)
Yeah, thanks to Beiber, Canada is now a crap country.
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If you are lucky the paparazzi can get you some pictures.
See: Going to the Show
